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During the reign of fat, cunning, democratic King Louis Philippe, an extraordinary crime, involving a smuggler's daughter, a great prince and the royal family, shocked a France that had become thoroughly accustomed to lurid intrigues and vile conspiracies. The smuggler's daughter was Sophie Dawes, brawny, coarse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worthless Wanton | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

Last week he filed a crisp account of mating between humans and apes on a Soviet experimental farm, adding as a snapper: "The purpose seems to be to improve the next generation of the Soviet population." That done, Jan Otmar Berson dropped in on one of the concluding sessions of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Apes, Lies, Gate | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

Such "cunning" being the advice and command of Moscow last week, Gazeta Polska's correspondent closed his report on the Comintern by remarking: "It is the most lying institution in a country which has a record for lying."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Apes, Lies, Gate | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

As the Congress of Revolution moved to adjourn, Keynoter Dimitroff urged "Exert your efforts with cunning!" This in the U. S. should take the form of discreet Communist infiltration into labor and religious groups hitherto repelled by Communist bluster, according to Comrade Dimitroff. Mild U. S. Socialists were marked for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Ways to Power | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

"[Ryan] obviously was unaccustomed to dealing with the workings of a shrewd and cunning European mind and doubtless was attracted by the glamor of foreign titles and his contact with Continental nobility. In permitting himself to be deceived by the sham of class or caste based upon the accident of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 29, 1935 | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

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